Game-piece.



,455. PATENTED JUNE 27, 1905.

M. 1 DELBAUM.

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I NITED STATES Patented June 27, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

GAME-PIECE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 793,455, dated June 27,1905,

Application filed January 11, 1905. Serial No. 240,531.

To all whom it inn/y concern/.

Be it known that I, MYER MANDELBAUM, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of the city and county of Albany,

State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGame-Pieces, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to game-pieces; and the object of my invention isto provide a game-piece upon which are the characters used on ordinaryplaying cardsto wit, hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs-together withthe pits or dots commonly displayed on the ordinary game of dominoes.

I attain this object as shown in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 shows a number of the blocks in the position they might occupyin playing the game. Fig. 2 shows a double ace.

The blocks are made, preferably, in the form and shape of the ordinarydomino and are divided, as is the domino, on the face into two portions,upon one of whichI arrange the ace of hearts, diamonds, spades, orclubs. Upon the other portion of the face of said block I place the pitsor dots in the same manner as on the domino. Thus I have in my game aseries of blocks in each of which the ace of spades will be at one end,the other end being supplied with pits numbering from one to six.Likewise I have a series of blocks in which the ace of clubs is on eachblock at one end thereof and on the other end a series of pits or dotsnumbering from one to six. The same way with hearts and diamonds. I alsohave whatI call a tableau, preferably a rectangular-formed block A,divided into four parts, having on each part one of the acesto wit,diamonds, spades, hearts, and clubs. I also have a series of double acesB.

*One way of playing this game is to place the tableau A on the board andplace the blocks face downward on the table. Let each player select atrandom a number of the blocks, and one of the players begin and play oneof his blocks by placing the ace on one of his blocks in contact withthat side of' the tableau upon which a corresponding ace is displayed.The next player may play either by placing a block in contact with thetableau or by bring- 5 ing the block having an equal number of pits ordots in contact with the block played by the first player. When it ispossible for one of the players to play a double, he may do so and countten therefor. All further playing is then stopped on that line. The nextdouble that is played will count the one playing it twenty and the thirdthirty, &sc. When one cannot play, he draws from the table. The one whogets out first has the count of all the blocks in his opponents hands.If the game is blocked, the one holding the lowest gets the count fromthe others. In the count doubles count ten and dominoes for theirrespective numbers.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A game apparatus comprising a seriesof blocks; one of said blocksdivided into four parts; an ace of each of the suits, hearts, diamonds,spades and clubs, respectively, placed upon each of said parts,respectively; a number of said blocks each divided into two sections;the ace of said suits, respectively, placed on one of the sections ofeach of said blocks. respectively; one or more dots corresponding to thedots on dominoes placed on the other sections of said blocks,respectively; the others of said blocks, each divided into two sectionsupon each section, respectively, of which an ace of said suitsrespectively, is placed, substantially as described.

2. A game apparatus comprising a series of blocks analogous to dominoes;one portion of each block having the ace of diamonds, hearts, spades andclubs, respectively, thereon, the other portion of said. .bloeks havingthe dots analogous to those used on dominoes thereon; with atableau-block having the aces of the said suits, respectively, thereon,together with blocks upon each of which two aces are placed, one at eachend thereof.

Signed at Albany, New York, this 9th day of January, 1905.

